Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Zambia and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979 at the first Second Layer practice in a loft in South London.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing The Litter to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Japan. All the underground hits.
All Bang On A Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sparks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Sheep,
Lakeside,
Vainqueur,
John Foxx,
The Gap Band,
Theoretical Girls,
Crash Course in Science,
Essential Logic,
Little Man,
Flash Fearless,
Ludus,
Rapeman,
Organ,
Lalo Schifrin,
Duran Duran,
Unrelated Segments,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Agent Orange,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Accadde A,
June of 44,
Schoolly D,
Youth Brigade,
Aswad,
Throbbing Gristle,
Tears for Fears,
The Monochrome Set,
Colin Newman,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Brand Nubian,
48th St. Collective,
Von Mondo,
D'Angelo,
Aaron Thompson,
The Dead C,
Nirvana,
The Seeds,
Bootsy Collins,
The Slackers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Ponytail,
Ohio Players,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eurythmics,
Ultra Naté,
Ossler,
Simply Red,
Soul Sonic Force,
Stetsasonic,
Zero Boys,
Roger Hodgson,
Ornette Coleman,
Grauzone,
Gil Scott Heron,
New Order,
The Cowsills,
Symarip,
Mad Mike,
X-Ray Spex,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Franke,
Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free, Agitation Free.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.